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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1971
Page
3
In Saigon, Tuesday protests erupt as students burn and smash vehicles after the Senate rejects a plan to probe President Nguyen Van Thieu’s reelection. The unrest marks a second straight day of anti Thieu demonstrations and remains tied to the U.S. troop presence.
In Bellefonte Pennsylvania a local police officer was killed and a second wounded by rifle fire from a passing auto on Main Street. State police launched a hunt for three men in a late model brown sedan believed to be headed toward Interstate 80. In Houston a freight train carrying chemical tanks derailed, bursting into flames. A fireman was killed and others injured as a second explosion occurred.
A 14 year old boy Lawrence Larson died in a gasoline fueled fire after sniffing gasoline fumes. His body was found in a basement in Henrietta. A Monroe County deputy said an explosion occurred when a spark from a clothes dryer or water heater pilot light ignited fumes. Albany reports three specialized wilderness search and rescue teams will be formed by the State Environmental Conservation Dept. Each team will have 12 men with an assistant district forest ranger in charge.
Board members discuss a state report showing 25 percent reading and 26 percent math failure at Mechanicville Middle School. Assemblyman Harwood cites higher failure rates across five districts. Superintendent Kearns calls the report asinine and favors executive session. Carabis urges improvements, urging funding shifts if needed.
Miss Sandra Leggett of Mechanicville a Cobleskill Agricultural and Technical College student is one of four campus dairy princesses alongside Rosalyn Wallace Elizabeth Watkins and Barbara Ophardt. Leggett and Ophardt served as hostesses Saturday in Cooperstown at a breakfast for American Women in Radio and Television cosponsored by the Dairy Council of Northeastern New York and the American Dairy Association.
Frank De Lorenzo will address the Mechanicalville Rotary Club at Fan tavazzis Restaurant about the role of the school board member during today's luncheon meeting.
Harry Robens of 26 Leonard Street Mechanicville is a patient at Leonard Hospital Troy after being taken there by the Ahearn Rescue Squad Ambulance Monday afternoon.
Brownie Troop 499 of the Church of the Assumption in Mechanicville will gather at 3 p.m. today at the youth center for a meeting.
County legislative candidate Thomas G. Cholakis urged closer cooperation between county legislators and town boards in a Poestenkill speech. He plans legislation to mail the Legislature minutes to all town supervisors if elected. The Fifth District includes Poestenkill North Greenbush East Greenbush and Sand Lake.
Prof. S F Oosthuizen, head of the South African Medical and Dental Council, says artificial hearts will be implanted in humans within five years.
The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers at Los Angeles Long Beach signed a three year contract with the Master Stevedore Contracting Association finishing the dock shutdowns. The other union ILWU has not settled and both unions were forced back to work by court injunctions under Nixon era orders.
Fire ruined the entire business district of Onley Virginia early today and officials suspect arson. No injuries were reported as flames roared hundreds of feet into the air consuming the hardware store and surrounding shops. Residents of 415-person town must travel to Onancock for groceries and heating supplies.
Twenty four candidates for the Troy city council will answer seven prepared questions at 8 p.m. Thursday in the Newman Foundation Chapel on RPI campus. The event is sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Rensselaer County with Mrs. James E. Estes coordinating and Mrs. David H. Hansen moderating. A floor Q A follows and the public may mingle afterward. biographies of the candidates will be distributed.
Jakarta AP report states about 43 million of Indonesia's 124 million people are afflicted with tuberculosis according to the Liquidation of Tuberculosis organization.
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